Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The famine of 1919–21 forced industrial workers back to the countryside , where they proceeded to apply their skills , encouraged by the local peasantry , thwarted by the lack of industrial consumer goods from the towns . |
| 2 | In the Ladies , where they went to explore and while away the length of time a restaurant meal always took , Miranda began , ‘ Who 's that man then ? ’ |
| 3 | She went to a different school from us , a convent school , where they had to wear uniform . |
| 4 | To make matters worse the scheme included an irrigation scheme on common land used by the women and with the help of the government , the men gained exclusive use of these lands , pushing women onto inferior , poorer quality land where they had to continue to try and grow the traditional rice . |
| 5 | ‘ Some people kept little trees in secret courtyards , and flowers in their houses , but they were n't supposed to , and if their neighbours reported them to the police the people would have their trees chopped down and the flowers taken away and they would be fined or put in prison , where they had to work very hard , rubbing out writing on bits of paper so they could be used again . ’ |
| 6 | The hardest task for the lads was swamp skiing , a severe test of cooperative behaviour where they had to navigate a 50 metre course barred by three electrified barriers on two 10 foot planks of wood . |
| 7 | She saw shades of grey where they seemed to see none — complications , contradictions . |
| 8 | The Nez Perce reached the Missouri on 23rd September , where they asked to trade with the fifteen soldiers at Cow Island Landing supply station . |
| 9 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 10 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 11 | To the perfect , shifting sands where they planned to sunbathe and then camp overnight . |
| 12 | " We 'll have a regular Simla evening , " declared the Colonel , and for this nostalgic excursion he chose to dine in a private room at Kettner 's , which still exists to-day , in Romilly Street , Soho ; after dinner they were to proceed to a box at the Palace Theatre , return to Kettner 's , where they arranged to leave their dominos , and thence to a masked ball at Covent Garden . |
| 13 | In disgust the guide led them back to the car park , where they overtipped to avoid a scene and got away without trouble . |
| 14 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 15 | In spite of unrest in the Ivory Coast in September , prices remained at around £700 a tonne , where they struggled to remain until December . |
| 16 | The family took advantage of the non-curfew daylight hours yesterday to travel to Anaheim , in the Disneyland area , where they intended to stay overnight with other relatives . |
| 17 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 18 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 19 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 20 | Two new players were needed to take Spurs where they wanted to go . |
| 21 | Additionally there 's lots of information in the backpackers ’ and motor camps , and the boys were pretty quick to suss out where they wanted to go and what to do there . |
| 22 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 23 | This was developed very highly in the Hollywood movies of the Thirties where they attempted to put ‘ colour ’ into the pictures in terms of light and shade . |
| 24 | I LIKE The Cult , I admire them for the sheer daftness of their post- ‘ Electric ’ output — all gung-ho riffing and ludicrous lyrical conceits — and even found much to savour in the absurdly ambitious ‘ Sonic Temple ’ , where they attempted to sound like all their favourite bands all the way through each song , but ‘ Ceremony ’ is an extremely dull affair . |
| 25 | Several thousand people from Shkodër and nearby towns converged on the northern port of Shengjin where they attempted to seize vessels to take them to Italy . |
| 26 | The wolves have been coming in from eastern Europe where they fled to escape hunters and human population expansion . |
| 27 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 28 | We separated private manufacturing and private service establishments where they appeared to differ from one another . |
| 29 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 30 | Where they tended to go wrong was at the micro rather than at the macro level : a mishandling of the relationship between parts rather than the parts themselves . |